Gravity · Architects

132 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36, 77-92 and 116 -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
GRAVITY · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12 and 46 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 16 sections: 54 keep time, 52 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-92.

PART A
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART H
PART S12
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesIUYVAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gravity?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Gravity hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Gravity?

14 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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